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i don't know exactly what to write, but I need to post something here! This book changed my life, it's so deep and its characters left a mark in my soul! Alyosha is a sort of little light I'll always carry in my heart... and Ivan will never stop fascinating me. How do you feel about the book?
One of the best novels ever written,if not the best.I didn't exactly feel like it changed my life,but I was definitely deeply moved.
The Best.
I have read the book twice, with a gap of 12 years. My understanding of the book is much higher second time.
However I feel the more times I read I will understand more. It is a multi layered book, applies even to current days, I will never understand the book fully any time.
My favorite character is the father. I have never seen a more foolish character on paper. The characterization is great.
Long ago, my first experience of fiction that is alive. And yes, the father is alive!
I'm reading it now. I don't have words. If we could write one sentence, Brothers Karamazov will be Dostojevkij's dot in his sentence. But not some ugly or common dot, but very nice, uncommon and great dot.:)
This is truly a great novel. After reading it (I read it a year ago, when I was seventeen) I struggled to figure out which one of the Karamazov brothers I was: the sensualist Mytia, the intelectual Ivan, the holy Alyosha or the disturbed Smerdyakov. What occured to me at last was that I was a bit of both Ivan and Mytia, while trying not to become Smerdyakov and aspiring to become Alyosha. Remarkable book in the sense that it captured the true essence of the human soul.
I just finished it, googled it, came across this website, and I was about to post something very similar.
Upon closing the book, I turned off my light, lay on my back and just thought. I thought about the themes of the book, about Mitya and his fate, about Alyosha and his transformation, about the suicidal lackey, the Karamazovian passion and fate, about love, hate, honour, pride, betrayel, murder... Most of all I thought about how brilliant Dostoyevsky is.
On a side note, this is my first post, but I am very glad to have found this website. I do not have anyone in my life that I can share my love and passion for literature and writing; most of my friends have never even heard of Dostoyevsky, or Kafka, or Faulkner or Proust. I look forward to exploring much more in the world of literature with like minded people.
Of course it transformed me too. I am a different person after reading the book. Not that there was transmutation in appearance and even in behavior even if there is a little change but what changed in me is my outlook on life. Indeed there are some questions, very basic questions in life and they got answered through him. The Brothers Karamazov does not make an inference regarding creation, immortality, God and the like. These are basic questions debated from time immemorial. Dostoevsky was very honest while giving his opinions. He does not conclude but the reader must figure out. He too has no answer and everybody has no answer. There are premises, surmises, hypotheses and the like but no one has ever conclusively been able to say about the creation of the world. That is why Dostoevsky has said somewhere life is a mystery. His book, the Brothers Karamazov is a matchless read. It is a spring well from which we get lots of information and inspiration too.